Intro and Reading list
Mood:  cool
This blog is dedicated to a new thing in the world, or perhaps the restoration of an old one. I plan on using this site to explain to the world how we can reasonably obtain world peace. This is not a joke. I am not an evangelist, who will tell you to listen to your evangelists for salvation, I will instead tell you to listen to many different statesmen, scholars, and generals on why war does or does not take place. It may require hundreds of pages of explanations and definitions before it is clear what I am talking about. I estimate that I had to read about 20,000 pages of different history books before it occurred to me, so boiling it down to a few hundred will be quite an accomplishment! Anyway, I hope you enjoy this blog. I will start with a reading list:

These books are placed in Chronological order by subject, not only do the books discuss the last two and a half thousand years of our history, but they are written over the course of the last two and a half thousand years of our history.


Herodotus, History of the Persian Wars
Thucydides, history of the Peloponnesian war
Plato, The Last Days of Socrates
James Kitto, The Greeks
Livy, Early History of Rome
Julius Caeser, Caeser’s Gallic Wars
Tacitus, Annals of Imperial Rome
Lutwak, Edward, The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire
Machiavelli, The Prince
Wernham, R.B, Before the Armada
Gibbon, History of the Rise and the Fall of the Roman Empire
(Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton),The Federalist papers
Carl Van Clausewitz, On War
Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
Stephen Oates, Biography of Abraham Lincoln
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall apart
Alfred Thayer Mahan, Influence of Sea Power Upon History
Breasted, History of the Ancient World
Molet, The myth of the great War
Murray and Millet, A War to be Won
H.G. Wells, Outline of History.
Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
James Dunnigan and Ablert A Nofi, Dirty little secrets of WWII
Adolph Galland, The First and the Last
Peter Neuman, The Black March
William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
LTC Eddy Bauer, Illustrated Encyclopedia of WWII
Dwight D Eisenhower, The Great Crusade
Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy
Peter Schweizer, Reagan’s War

And some good general history books for anyone who wants to understand how the world around them came to be:

Albert M. Craig and others, The Heritage of World Civilization
Henry W Bragdon and Samuel P. McCutchen, History of a Free People.
Thomas A Bailey, and David M Kennedy, American Pageant Ninth Editon,
Viola, Herman, After Columbus